Codea

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4.7
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Votes
455
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App Age
14y 2m
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Last Update
Jun 24, 2025
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iAP
$5.99 - 119.99

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Rating
4.7
4.67
+0.6%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
448
3.2M
-100%
App Age
14y 1m
7y 11m
+77%
Price
$15
$0
In-app Purchases Price
$52
$72
-27 %
Update Frequency
91d
27d
+233%
Title Length
5
23
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Subtitle Length
15
28
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Description Length
2 452
3 064
-20%
Number of Screenshots
2223
1384
+61 %
Size
215MB
286MB
-25 %

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"It’s kind of like the Garage Band of coding." – Wired "Codea for iPad is a super slick way to write and run programs on your iPad." – Gizmodo Codea lets you create games and simulations — or just about any visual idea you have. Turn your thoughts into interactive creations that make use of iPad features like Multi-Touch and the accelerometer. We think Codea is the most beautiful code editor you'll use, and it's easy. Codea is designed to let you touch your code. Want to change a color, or an image? Tapping will bring up visual editors that let you choose exactly what you want. Codea is built on the Lua programming language. A simple, elegant language that doesn't rely too much on symbols — a perfect match for iPad. Here's how you use it: type your code. Press play to watch it run. Interact with it. Get creative. FEATURES • A fully featured 2D and 3D renderer • Lots of great example projects to learn from, including games • Touch your code: tap colors, images and sounds to adjust them • Export your finished projects to Xcode to produce real apps • Complete in-line reference documentation accessible from keyboard • Intelligent syntax highlighting and auto-completing code editor • Import your own assets from Dropbox • Full 2D and 3D physics engines for complex motion • Add parameters so you can tweak variables at runtime • Interact with accelerometer and multi-touch on your device • Generate retro-game sound effects • GLSL Shader Language support with live shader editor • Bluetooth keyboard support and keyboard shortcuts • Air Code: code live from your PC using WiFi • Much, much more IMPORTANT INFORMATION • Join the forums at https://talk.codea.io to ask questions, share ideas and get help when you need it • If you need help or wish to get in contact with us, please use the support link on this page • Privacy policy https://codea.io/privacy • Terms https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ SUBSCRIPTION • Codea is free to use for projects up to 500 lines, after which you can subscribe to Codea Pro for access to advanced features and unlimited project size • Monthly and yearly plans available • Lifetime one-time purchase also available • Pricing may vary by region. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings.}
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Rating
4.7
455 voters

Some Latest Reviews

컨ㄷ션
22 Nov, 2025
5
좋은 앱으로 보이나, 영어도 모르고, 개발도 모르는 사람에게 진입장벽이 높네요. 물론 한글이 지원하지 않는다는 것도 알고 앱을 설치하고 구독도 했습니다만 역시 힘드네요. 혹시 한글지원도 기대할수있을까요???
Ham.ish.
20 Aug, 2025
3
I open assets from my project menu and everything just freezes, please fix it I wanna finish my game I needed to add custom assets :/
Lost in Tactics
10 Aug, 2025
3
8/9/25 REVIEW: Too much accidental writing, add a slider to the left of the numbered code blocks, so we can scroll through the code with our Apple Pencil. We can no longer use Apple Pencil, to highlight code, copy, paste, cut… because codea developers have now made it primarily for writing any time your Apple Pencil touches the editor. GPT 5 has just made your app *50 million years better* Please give us back our Apple Pencil selection functions back. 5 stars and updated review when fixed —————————- I’ve owned this app for well over 10 years. I always disliked the developers because they made it a tough environment for *no code background* to use this app. My goal was and still is, to prototype my game mechanics for our VR game we are developing on Unity engine. Regarding Codea, at first I was determined and even supported by buying their shader app. Then.. I started noticing, the more I dug the more chaotic it became to learn, the community was good to ask questions and you can get solutions (but you rarely now what questions to ask, when you’re new) The community didn’t have have guides or tutorials at the time. The ones they did offer were highly defragmented and not noob friendly. And the ones you did find that were noob friendly.. were always outdated by 5+ years, and worse.. the developers and community did not provide YouTube resources. (things maybe different now) who knows. I stopped going to the forums and stopped using Codea altogether for many years. I eventually learned how to use pre visualization apps like shot pro so I can animate my character models to visualize my game mechanics I was designing for our VR game. Fast forward to the future 2024: Now thanks to Chat GPT, I’ll prompt gpt to code my designs of a specific game mechanic on codea. I then test its game feel. If it passes the game feel test, I then update my design document with any tweaks I may have done during codea stage, pass on the design doc to our (hourly wage) game developer and have them add those mechanics onto our VR prototype for our Quest 3 Headset. If you are a game designer, because of Chat GPT, you now have the capability to rapidly test your game mechanics. Otherwise if you are new to coding, want to learn coding - going off my horrible past experiences, I would avoid codea as your learning base.
PRESENCEOFTHEHORNYLORD
19 Jul, 2025
4
It would be better if Codea had a few free export , Like 2-3 times free export
mrbenn2011
28 Jun, 2025
5
I don’t really know what I’m doing but I fumble around with it using the tutorials and playing around with stuff and I’ve managed to create a few games and programs. Great app. With a bit of time and effort, I can see that you could create anything you imagine.
Who knows what when
05 Jun, 2025
3
When Codea code compiles into native apple executables, then I'll buy the lifetime contract which is what I did when I originally purchased it as an interpreter, what's going on with your brains up there in the north. Has Donald Trump psychosis infected you.
ScrubLord17
31 Dec, 2024
5
This app is one-of-a-kind phenomenal. I used to use this as a teen before I had a computer, and I was just brought back here after purchasing a new iPad. I’d recommend this to anyone, personally.
魏来李好
24 Dec, 2024
1
无意中下载下来,申请两次退款均不通过,应该是没有售后,只做一次性生意。硬着头皮使用,体验感极差,提供为数不多几个实例,也不注明是什么语言开发的,几乎没有与用户互交的体验。现在市面上编程app太多且功能强大,与用户互交充分,真心没必要花198买这个,就是几个案例仅此而已。商店免费平替款太多了。就当回大冤种帮大家踩坑了。
AppSupApp
15 Dec, 2024
3
A lot of examples don't seem to work on M4 iPad and iOS 18. 3D asset viewer just displays a blank screen, while pressing "Run" in the "Learn Craft" examples makes the whole app hang.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.72
Voted: 455
App Store Link:
Price: 14.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Productivity, Education
Size: 215MB
iAP: 5.99 - 119.99 $
App Age: 14 years 2 months
Release Date: Oct 25, 2011
Last Update: Jun 24, 2025
Version: 3.14.3
Version history
3.14.3
Jun 24, 2025
Screen sizes: you can now choose from a variety of screen sizes when running your projects. This includes iPhone, TV, and Square. Great for testing your layouts — use `layout.safeArea` to ensure your project is not obscured by device features
3.14.2
Jun 18, 2025
NEW - Dependencies list is now searchable, supports iCloud and other project locations. Very dependable FIXED - Improved support for hot reload - Exposed tween target to Lua for more control in animations. You are the puppet master - Modern renderer: Fixed sprite rendering breaking some scene rendering - Modern renderer: Improved rendering by resetting view state when changing projection or view matrix. We don't know what it means either - Improves performance of the project grid to address lag and freeze issues with large projects. The grid no longer buckles under the weight of your creations
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